I think a most interesting middle ground option is the advent of CLIs specifically with agents in mind.
For example, grafana has a newer CLI called gcx that replaced grafanactl <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observability-as-code/grafana-cli/gcx/" rel="nofollow">https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observabilit...
I originally used the MCP server but after running into context bloat and limitations around MCP I looked and found this. Seems to be a fantastic interface for agents, they breeze through o11y tasks with this thing.
Agreed, had a coworker come to this same conclusion and now only distributes CLIs. I think it’s solid as long as the decision tree of which tools do what is fairly simple. Perhaps MCPs were just overused before
wetpaste · · focus · HN ↗
For example, grafana has a newer CLI called gcx that replaced grafanactl <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observability-as-code/grafana-cli/gcx/" rel="nofollow">https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observabilit...
I originally used the MCP server but after running into context bloat and limitations around MCP I looked and found this. Seems to be a fantastic interface for agents, they breeze through o11y tasks with this thing.
georgeburdell · · focus · HN ↗